Who Owns the South China Sea?

welcome to madmen where the men and here's the map today we're talking about a map of the sea specifically the South China Sea which could be found here just south of China in this bit of sea now you might think there's not a lot of point in nothing to see but if you look quite literally below the surface you can find valuable fish stocks oil reserves and a giant swimming pool the size of an earth-sized planet but given how many countries border this patch of sea I feel like we're saying see a lot there's nothing we can do about it drawing up these borders can be more contentious than a 1960s East German Olympic blood sample first there's Brunei with it's neat yet nurse Vitalik claim then we add Malaysia then we add the Vietnamese plane then the Philippine playing round finally the Chinese play with shaking with the ninth line oh gosh this needs a corner of sea came by China Vietnam Brunei Malaysia and the Philippines which was ridiculous but here at madmen is the sort of thing we've really loved the troll is painting a line in the sea doesn't really work so what's a better way of proving that you own the sea the answer is land here in the middle of it all at the uninhabited Spratly Islands a series of tiny reefs and sand banks and all the countries involved claims on for themselves so they can own the sea around them and cheeky China have also been building innocuous things like gun turrets helipad naval boats and air strips but it doesn't stop there China have been using enormous dredging boats to build even more spratly islands including this one which is genuinely called mischief reef so now it's land and now it's theirs out so why do people here in China care so much about control of the sea at the moment Chinese ships can travel through this area as they please but if there were a war these narrow pathways could easily be blockaded which could result in China's hugely export orientated economy collapsing faster than a 1960s the East German Olympic Stadium so for now China is sticking with this nine-dash line and would you mess with China no analysts agree that this sticky sea situation is set to continue for at least hours I need a real bath

Channel: Jay Foreman

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Keywords: Map Men, South China Sea, China Sea, Who owns the South China sea?, MAP MEN, Jay Foreman, Mark Cooper Jones, Mark Cooper-Jones, Unfinished London, Politics Unboringed, China, Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, Spratly Islands, Spratley Islands, Who owns the Spratly Islands, disputed, islands, Mischief Reef, Chinese Islands

Id: ypMCK7NcbxU

Length: 2min 18sec (138 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 07 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/voksul]

I love the sort of humor these guys have:

standing in London's Chinatown

So why do people here, in China, care so much about the sea?

[u/xbsd]

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